i mean, there was not much higher education--or less higher education in those days, but nevertheless the ideas generated by the intellectual classes had tremendous impact on society, as they do today. somehow people don't think that the printed word is as important today as it was 100, 150 years ago, and a lot of people seem not to think that the printed word is going to be as important 100 years from now as compared with what it is today. i think they're both wrong. i think the printed word is the--is the place where ideas get generated. now television can take them over, the other media can take them over, movies can take them over, the newsmagazines can take them over. but the printed words, particularly those developed by the intellectual community, are the source of the ideas by which people define their place in the world and the destiny of their country. c-span: would this book that you've written here--would you want people to pick this up in 100 years and say, 'that's irving kristol'? >> guest: sure. c-span: is it right here? >> guest: i don't want them--i don't want them to